Another nice Tuesday
Was a full and energized morning. I spent five hours out at Heron Lakes and the time seemed to just fly by. I have a full bag of “games” now, which keeps me much more entertained than when I started and had just two different skills I practiced (over and over..)
Now I’m all over the greens in my new found games. Here’s a list of what I do on any given day:
Three-foot putts: An oldie but a goodie, I putt from six places around the hole that are each three feet away and count the number I get out of 102 putts (it’s 102 because that’s 17 complete circles of six, I could have stopped at 100 or have putted from five places, but from three feet it just makes sense to have 6 spots for some reason).
Five-foot putts: Just like the three-footers, but two feet further away. In this one, I putt from five different spots, totaling 100 putts a round. I try and do two full rounds of these a day.
six-foot call shot: This one consists of four spots 6 feet away from the hole. I putt from each position for five minutes and “call” which part of the hole I am going to make it in. There are five parts of the hole: far left, left center, center, right center and far right. I also call the speed that the ball drops in at, whether it is slow, normal or I nuke it in.
10 foot measurement: Here I place two coins ten feet apart and from one end to the other, measuring how far the ball lands away from the coin. I putt ten balls from one side and then putt ten back the other direction.
20 foot game: I putt from four places twenty feet away from the hole. The goal is to get as close to the hole as possible and within a “success” zone of three feet. If I am in front of the hole and within three feet, I get .5 points, if I am past the hole and within the distance, 1 point, if I sink the putt, 1.5 points and if I am not within 3 feet I get zero points. I putt 20 balls during this game and count up my score.
20 random: This game is a little less precise. I putt 20 balls from 20 random spots towards one hole and then measure how far away the ball lands. My ultimate goal on this one is to get every putt within a certain distance, starting with 3 feet and then moving closer as I get better at the game.
Outside of those, I have a couple putting aids that I use to make sure my stance is correct and my hitting is straight, but that is the gist of a day in the life of The Dan PLan!